Definitions for cabbage-tree

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cabbage-tree cabbage tree

Cabbage-Tree is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in cabbage-tree (-aabbceeegrt).

Definitions for cabbage-tree

noun

1. any tropical tree or treelike plant having leaves or edible shoots suggestive of cabbage.
2. an Australian palm tree of the genus Livistona, especially L. australis.

Origin of cabbage-tree

First recorded in 1715-25

Examples for cabbage-tree

He laughed, and said that grogo is the name of a big maggot which is found in the Cockarito palm or cabbage tree.

Here is the home of the palmetto4 or cabbage tree, the only palm in our wide country.

There is here a sort of cabbage tree, of the nature of a palm, producing small cabbages, but very sweet.

This island is well covered with wood, the chief of which is the large and dwarf mangrove, the bamboo, and the cabbage tree.

The bark of A. inermis, or cabbage tree, is narcotic, and is used as an anthelminthic under the name of worm-bark or cabbage bark.

Cordyline australis (Ti-tri, or cabbage tree, as it is usually called).

We found also one cabbage tree, which we cut down for the cabbages.